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minus-squaremarcos@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up49arrow-down1·17 days agoThat’s a conversation I’ve had more than once with my parents: – Doing X is fine! Everybody did it in my time and we grew up just fine! – Didn’t that friend of yours die because of it? – Yeah, but he’s only a single person, and everybody did X…
minus-squarePsythik@lemmy.worldcakelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·edit-216 days agoAnytime I hear this argument from someone, I tell them to go look up the term, “survivorship bias”. I mean we figured this shit out during WWII, FFS. People need to keep up.
minus-squareI Cast Fist@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·17 days ago I mean we figured this shit out during WWI I guess they forgot to teach that in classes since then
That’s a conversation I’ve had more than once with my parents:
– Doing X is fine! Everybody did it in my time and we grew up just fine!
– Didn’t that friend of yours die because of it?
– Yeah, but he’s only a single person, and everybody did X…
Anytime I hear this argument from someone, I tell them to go look up the term, “survivorship bias”.
I mean we figured this shit out during WWII, FFS. People need to keep up.
I guess they forgot to teach that in classes since then